A selection of great poems from centuries of brillant authors and poets. Whether you are new to the world of poetry and wish to savor it, or a well-versed poetry connoisseur, either way you will probably enjoy the classics of world poetry.

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Great Poems

Votes PoemAuthor

3647InvictusWilliam Ernest Henley

2033IfRudyard Kipling

1315I Loved YouAlexander Pushkin

696Love Sonnet XVIIPablo Neruda

597The Road not TakenRobert Frost

542Annabel LeeEdgar Allan Poe

505Sonnet 116William Shakespeare

392A Dream within a DreamEdgar Allan Poe

224A Book of VersesOmar Khayyam

207She Walks in BeautyLord Byron

174Give All to LoveRalph Waldo Emerson

170When you are oldWilliam Butler Yeats

164Life is but a DreamLewis Carroll

141Pleasure in the Pathless WoodsLord Byron

123The Unseen PlaymateRobert Louis Stevenson

119Admit It and Change EverythingRumi

104Because She Would Ask MeChristopher Brennan

98O Me! O Life!Walt Whitman

97Sonnet 18William Shakespeare

89Love's SecretWilliam Blake

76How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)Elizabeth Barrett Browning

75UlyssesAlfred, Lord Tennyson

71BirdsongRumi

69EchoChristina Georgina Rossetti

67He Wishes For The Cloths Of HeavenWilliam Butler Yeats

64No TearsAlexander Pushkin

61IthacaC.P. Cavafy

57RememberChristina Georgina Rossetti

57SongJohn Keats

55The Second ComingWilliam Butler Yeats

54The Gardener - 41Rabindranath Tagore

52Visible RealityRumi

51Love Not MeJohn Wilbye

51Love Sonnet XIPablo Neruda

51Youth and AgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge

47A Moment to RememberAlexander Pushkin

47Life in a LoveRobert Browning

42For Each Ecstatic InstantEmily Dickinson

39Love Sonnet XLVPablo Neruda

39Music, When Soft Voices DiePercy Bysshe Shelley

38Wondrous MomentAlexander Pushkin

37Extinguish Thou My EyesRainer Maria Rilke

37The Rose in the Deeps of his HeartWilliam Butler Yeats

36Foreign LandsRobert Louis Stevenson

36Now Sleeps the Crimson PetalAlfred, Lord Tennyson

36The Gardener - 40Rabindranath Tagore

35Ode: Intimations Of ImmortalityWilliam Wordsworth

35She Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysWilliam Wordsworth

35The Passionate PilgrimWilliam Shakespeare

35Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight?Christopher Marlowe

34Ah, My BelovedOmar Khayyam

34The Passionate Shepherd to His LoveChristopher Marlowe

33Rumors from an Aeolian HarpHenry David Thoreau

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